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Recognizing the urgent need for collaboration, cooperation, and coordination to ensure that Africa plays a leadership role in the development and access to potential vaccines, this two-day virtual conference, under the leadership of H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), will bring together healthcare professionals, researchers, public health experts, policy makers, media, civil society, community and religious leaders, and industries to explore this topic and help develop a framework for COVID-19 vaccine development and access in Africa.

When: Jun 24, 2020 02:00 PM and Jun 25, 2020 01:00 PM Nairobi
Topic: Africa’s Leadership in COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Access

TO REGISTER VISIT: https://bit.ly/2B6BXvA                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Register in advance for this webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

The seminar will be exciting and informative for both Research Ethics Committee members and researchers. National and international speakers will discuss current and pertinent topics related to Data Science and Ethics. Delegates are responsible for their own flight and accommodation arrangements. Please note that accommodation in Cape Town is limited during October 2022 due to multiple concurrent events, so please book early.

More information: http://blogs.sun.ac.za/aresa/

Programme: https://blogs.sun.ac.za/aresa/files/2022/09/Research-Ethics-seminar-flyer-26-28-October-2022-updatedpdf.pdf

• Application deadline = 04 April 2023
• Next application deadline = 27 July 2023
• Level of funding = you should ask for your salary (if required) and the resources you need for your research programme
• Duration of funding = usually 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines
• Link = https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/career-development-awards  

Wellcome is exploring how best to support public health and clinical interventions to improve global health. They are looking forward to what the next 10 years of global health trials might look like and want to hear your biggest and boldest ideas!

Wellcome want to know which health interventions you think have the potential to truly transform the health of people living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)? They are looking for large-scale evaluations of interventions that are in development but have not yet been formally evaluated (whether these are a product such as a diagnostic tool, drug, or vaccine, or a behavioural intervention, and whether they are targeted at individuals, communities or a combination of the two).

Wellcome are also interested in understanding how they can support more efficient evaluations that can provide definitive evidence and be much better linked with parallel policy work to allow faster uptake of evidence into practice.

Interventions should:

• be at late stage of development that evaluate efficacy or effectiveness (equivalent to pivotal Phase II or Phase III/IV)
• address the major causes of mortality and morbidity in LMICs
• have clear pathways to changing policy and guidelines
• address the issues of scalability and sustainability
• be evaluated at a large scale (either multi-country or multi-site)

To complete the survey visit: http://bit.ly/wellcome-global-health-survey

If you have any questions about the survey please contact Elena Netsi, Portfolio Manager Population Health at Wellcome, e.netsi@wellcome.ac.uk